As a team physician for various high school, collegiate, elite, and professional sports teams, I work with athletes who suffer concussion injuries. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury—or TBI—caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to...read more
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 332,000 total hip replacements are performed in the United States each year. In fact, from 2000 to 2010, the number of hip replacements have more than doubled and while procedures...read more
Helping Your Child Through Surgery and Recovery. It’s stressful enough having to go through surgery as an adult. However, any parent would agree that when their child has to have surgery, it’s an incredibly difficult time. The anxiety level...read more
I turned into the development in Geneva, Illinois and drove my way through the development, past homes under construction and through mazes of trucks, cement mixers and pallets of materials. I’m headed to Paul Melull’s home to talk to...read more
Julia Dayton, a sophomore at Hononegah High School, founded the northern Illinois chapter of Curvy Girls Scoliosis (Curvy Girls) after she was diagnosed in November 2009 at the age of eight with Scoliosis. “Scoliosis has taught me not to...read more
It is a very exciting time at OrthoIllinois with the addition of two new specialties and multiple new physicians! On August 1, 2016, we will welcome Dr. Todd Alexander and Dr. Richard Broderick, both experienced neurosurgeons that will be...read more